Thanks for re-posting in #flashinthefeed, Linda!

BETH SHERMAN: Gourd Flash Fiction by Beth Sherman Gourd Mark fell in love with a bitter melon by accident. He’d come to Whole Foods with green peppers on his shopping list. Peppers, onions, quinoa, chopped tomatoes. H…

“I’m sorry,” she said. To his surprise she sounded like she meant it. “But you had to have known this relationship would have a shelf life, right?”

#FlashInTheFeed by @bsherm36.bsky.social in Flash Boulevard. ❤️

flashboulevard.wordpress.com/2026/04/18/b...

Thanks so much, Christina!!

Blackhearts by Beth Sherman AFTER MY FATHER LEFT, my mother would wake at 3 a.m. and blast Joan Jett songs on the stereo. She’d bop around the living room like an awkward teenager, playing air guitar, swinging…

I love a mother-daughter narrative so today's #FlashInTheFeed is "Blackhearts" by @bsherm36.bsky.social in @fictivedream.bsky.social:

There's so much tension, tiny details, and a desire to be understood in this piece: fictivedream.com/2025/02/04/b...

I love both of these, Gill!

Ordered!!

This is going to be good!

Yay! I can't wait to read it!!

Thanks for the shout out, Gill!

Happy my story, 'The Puffin,' is in this beautiful journal. Thanks to @erinvachon.bsky.social whose Smokelong prompt inspired it and to @smokelong.bsky.social for initial f/b. V pleased to be alongside @bsherm36.bsky.social whose work I admire. Do read her story, a reimagining of the Minotaur myth.

Thanks, Lori!!

“After the Last Doctor’s Appointment” by Beth Sherman @bsherm36.bsky.social is today’s 75-word #story on Paragraph Planet www.paragraphplanet.com #flashfiction

Congratulations to the winner @bsherm36.bsky.social & the runners up Rosaleen Lynch & Emma Williams of the February online festival writing challenge. Read their brilliant & colourful stories selected by judge @scooterwriter.bsky.social www.flashfictionfestival.com/news/

Not used to using hashtags! But for #flashinthefeed here's another great story: Matt Barrett's "First they Fall" in @fracturedlit.bsky.social fracturedlit.com/first-they-f...

We All Know About Margo - SmokeLong Quarterly When Margo takes off her shirt, we all know what’s coming. Margo, who we all say has the best tits in the senior class, has a shot of tequila in one hand and the shirt in the other. It’s a flimsy litt...

The story I'm sharing for @smokelong.bsky.social's Flash in the Feed is Megan Pillow's "We All Know about Margo," which I read years ago but packs such a wallop that whenever someone asks about favorite flashes, it's the first one I mention. www.smokelong.com/stories/we-a...

Same. Good to be anthology mates with you!

Thanks for re-posting, Gill!

Very pleased to be here. Congrats @bsherm36.bsky.social and @erinbondo.bsky.social for being the award winners, congrats to everyone on the list + thanks to @karjon.bsky.social and @sharontelfer.bsky.social

Congrats to you, as well, Erin!

Woo hoo!!

Excited to have made the longlist! Congrats to my fellow nominees.

My first time at AWP!

Thanks, Cole!

Thanks so much, Anika!

Thanks, James. Yes, I am! It's been 26 years since I had a book published so this means a lot!

Thanks so much, Sumitra!

Thanks, Sharon!

Thanks, Mack. Hope we're on the same page for this one!

Thanks so much, Alison!

Thanks, Sarah!